"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." -African Proverb Desktop apps like Excel are fabulous at letting you work alone with d

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." -African Proverb Desktop apps like Excel are fabulous at letting you work alone with data in front of you. But they are a shitstorm of horror when you try to work with other people, collecting data from multiple places. And sure, Office 365 is a step in the right direction, but it's not nearly enough. Google Sheets is slightly better, but it's still not enough. To be frank, the same way that "anyone can do SQL," we've fallen into a trap of thinking "anyone can do Excel," and it's just not true. And no amount of improving the commercial product Excel will make it work for businesses like they need, in my opinion. At some point you need to hire engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, process engineers, business analysts, etc., to help you manage your data. Asking people to "Learn Excel" in order to replace a real team of qualified domain experts is folly.